Dark Horse Manga has announced that it has licensed Gou Tanabe’s manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space. Otaku USA first confirmed the news in an exclusive article posted this past week.
The manga adaptation is scheduled to be released in paperback format in bookstores on July 1, 2025, and comic shops on July 2, 2025. It will be adapted into English by Eisener Award-winning translator Zack Davisson.
Tanabe serialized the manga adaptation in Enterbrain’s Comic Beam magazine from July to October 2015. A single tankobon volume was released.
Tanabe’s other works based on Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos series were also published in English by Dark Horse. They include manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Call of Cthulhu.
He also worked on manga adaptations for Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Out of Time.
Dark Horse describes the main synopsis of The Colour Out of Space manga as:
A surveyor examining a site for a new reservoir arrives at the bottom of a desolate valley in rural Massachusetts, a place even the inhabitants of witch-haunted Arkham speak of with fear. The “strange days” of the past in that area are best left alone and forgotten.
Surrounded by tangled and overgrown flora, a five-acre desolate void covered in a fine gray ash sits where a farm once stood. No wind, no life, nothing remains as the visiting surveyor discovers the story of what happened in 1882 from an aged survivor: out of a blue sky, something, a visitor, fell. As scientists gather to analyze the site where this “meteorite” landed, they find an object unlike any known element of the spectrum, which disappears in the lab. The mystery slowly becomes a horror for those who reside near this forsaken farm. The plants, animals, and even the people are twisted by the cosmic light and its unnatural blight that should have stayed hidden and buried.
Source: Otaku USA, Anime News Network, press release
